Hosea 14:3
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3 (A)Assyria shall not save us;
(B)we will not ride on horses;
and (C)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
(D)In you the orphan finds mercy.”
Psalm 68:5
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Psalm 10:14
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14 But you do see, for you (A)note mischief and vexation,
that you may take it into your hands;
to you the helpless (B)commits himself;
you have been (C)the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 33:17
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17 (A)The war horse is a false hope for salvation,
and by its great might it cannot rescue.
John 14:18
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18 “I will not leave you as orphans; (A)I will come to you.
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Hosea 14:8
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8 O (A)Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.[a]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
(B)from me comes your fruit.
Footnotes
- Hosea 14:8 Hebrew him
Hosea 5:13
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13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah (A)his wound,
then Ephraim went (B)to Assyria,
and sent to the great king.[a]
(C)But he is not able to cure you
or heal (D)your wound.
Footnotes
- Hosea 5:13 Or to King Jareb
Hosea 2:17
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17 For (A)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
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Isaiah 31:1
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Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt
31 Woe[a] to (A)those who go down to Egypt for help
and rely on horses,
who (B)trust in chariots because they are many
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but (C)do not look to the Holy One of Israel
or consult the Lord!
Footnotes
- Isaiah 31:1 Or Ah,
Isaiah 30:16
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16 and you said,
“No! We will flee upon (A)horses”;
therefore you shall flee away;
and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;
therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
Zechariah 13:2
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Idolatry Cut Off
2 “And (A)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, (B)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that (C)they shall be remembered no more. And also (D)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.
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Micah 5:10-14
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10 And (A)in that day, declares the Lord,
(B)I will cut off your horses from among you
and will destroy your chariots;
11 (C)and I will cut off the cities of your land
and throw down all your strongholds;
12 and I will cut off (D)sorceries from your hand,
and (E)you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
13 and (F)I will cut off your carved images
and (G)your pillars from among you,
(H)and you shall bow down no more
to the work of your hands;
14 and I will root out your (I)Asherah images from among you
(J)and destroy your cities.
Hosea 12:1
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12 Ephraim feeds on the wind
and pursues (A)the east wind all day long;
they multiply (B)falsehood and violence;
(C)they make a covenant with Assyria,
and (D)oil is carried to Egypt.
Hosea 8:9
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Hosea 8:6
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6 For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
(A)The calf of Samaria
(B)shall be broken to pieces.[a]
Footnotes
- Hosea 8:6 Or shall go up in flames
Hosea 7:11
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Ezekiel 43:7-9
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7 and he said to me, (A)“Son of man, this is (B)the place of my throne and (C)the place of the soles of my feet, (D)where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more (E)defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies[a] of their kings at their high places,[b] 8 by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with (F)only a wall between me and them. They have (G)defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, (H)and I will dwell in their midst forever.
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- Ezekiel 43:7 Or the monuments; also verse 9
- Ezekiel 43:7 Or at their deaths
Ezekiel 37:23
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23 (A)They shall not (B)defile themselves anymore (C)with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But (D)I will save them from all the backslidings[a] in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and (E)they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
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- Ezekiel 37:23 Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings
Ezekiel 36:25
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25 (A)I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from (B)all your uncleannesses, and (C)from all your idols (D)I will cleanse you.
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Jeremiah 31:18-22
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18 I have heard (A)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
(B)bring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after (C)I had turned away, I relented,
and after I was instructed, (D)I struck my thigh;
(E)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 (F)Is Ephraim my dear son?
(G)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
(H)Therefore my heart[a] yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.
21 (I)“Set up road markers for yourself;
make yourself guideposts;
(J)consider well the highway,
(K)the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
return to these your cities.
22 (L)How long will you waver,
(M)O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
a woman encircles a man.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels
Isaiah 36:8
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8 Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
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Isaiah 31:3
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3 The Egyptians are man, and not God,
and their horses (A)are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
and they will all perish together.
Isaiah 30:2
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2 (A)who set out to go down to Egypt,
without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
Isaiah 27:9
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9 Therefore by this (A)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[a]
(B)when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no (C)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
Isaiah 2:20
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20 In that day (A)mankind will cast away
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the (B)bats,
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